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Show TO ABANDON MILITARY POSTS General Wood Declares That Secre tary ef War Intend to Abolieh at Least Four Post In Northwet. Washington At least four and po elbly si, military post lit the north-went north-went are to lu abolished In the nt'iir future by ordi r of the secretary of war was asserted Monday by General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, before the ho'ise committee on expenditures In tbti war department. The pi imb to be abandon d are the smaller ones, and the present Investigation Investi-gation exempts brigade and regimen tnl and recruiting stations. Thin 1m the first step In the polity leading ultimately to the roncentratlon of the nnny lu a few large posts bieated on trancontlne'ilal linen convenient for quick mobilization. I While the order Ih expected during ! the present summer, the abandonment j of potts will not occur until troops ! lire to be moved to Panama and lla j wall. WJien eight or ten regiment are Kent to Panama and Hawaii they will lie taken as far bh possible from the potts to he abandoned and the ucrctiiiy of war will ask congress for pei nil: ion to sell the grounds and yT C . . GEN. LEONARD H. WOOD. building. Kolse. Idaho, and Fort Meade, South Dakota, are said to be two of the posta stated for abandon nient. In addition to Fort Asslnibolne Mont. |